…is the real and best pink form of Magnolia delavayi by the Kitchen Garden. Only fleetingly pink in bud as you can see. Magnolia delavayi Magnolia delavayi Magnolia delavayi Eucommia…

…splendidly out in flower. The other yet to show colour although in less shade then here. Schefflera delavayi Schefflera delavayi Schefflera delavayi Schefflera delavayi Schefflera delavayi The flower buds on…

…to grab a cone or two from each of these. I went back and did it as Asia has a bad back. Abies delavayi Abies delavayi Abies delavayi Abies delavayi…

…bark from a peculiar source! (And I am not telling you what that is!) Pruning Magnolia delavayi Pruning Magnolia delavayi Pruning Magnolia delavayi pruning of the Magnolia delavayi pruning of…

…CHW Clethra delavayi about to open above the main quarry. Clethra delavayi Clethra delavayi Clethra delavayi Eucryphia milliganii full out with its dainty small white cup flowers. It looks dwarfish…

…the sea from the lawn has been restored. view of the sea Paeonia delavayi var. delavayi f. lutea is losing its leaves and its seeds are ripening fast. Paeonia delavayi…

…needed Susyn to put us right. Ilex cornuta ‘Burfordii’ Ilex cornuta ‘Burfordii’ Abies delavayi with male flowers and a (hopefully) receptive female seed cone. Abies delavayi Abies delavayi Eucalyptus leucoxylon…

…delavayi Buddleia delavayi Buddleia limitanea has quite similar flowers to B. delavayi in that the centres are orange and the flower colour similar. This species has a much more compact…

…can see the whole gambit of new buds, buds, flowers, dead flowers and then seed heads all here today. Magnolia delavayi Magnolia delavayi Magnolia delavayi Magnolia delavayi Magnolia delavayi More…

…garden. It never sets seeds and the floor is littered with empty seed pods. Magnolia delavayi Magnolia delavayi Magnolia delavayi Magnolia delavayi 2016 – CHW The Hortensus hydrangeas may be…

…Schefflera delavayi are enormous and the first flowers just out. Schefflera delavayi Schefflera delavayi Schefflera delavayi I said two years ago that this Camellia pitardii needed pruning back. The regrowth…

…out already. Camellia sasanqua ‘Setsugekka’ Abies homolepis performing well again. Abies homolepis Abies delavayi is nearly as good. Abies delavayi Sorbus alnifolia rather less impressive. Sorbus alnifolia Malus transitoria ‘Roundabarrow…

…a huge flower spike on such a small plant. Schefflera delavayi Schefflera delavayi Schefflera delavayi 2017 – CHW After finding ‘Cornish Snow’ was out I thought I had better check…

…and produced little new growth and only small deformed leaves as you see here. big leafed rhododendron A newly planted Abies delavayi with good new growth. Abies delavayi The Pheasant…

…100 years old. Rehderodendron macrocarpum Flower spikes emerging on Schefflera delavayi. Normally out in November/December. Schefflera delavayi I have also missed Illicium aff. griffithii (WWJ 1911) very last flower here….

…The Abies delavayi cones are now fully developed with sap still extruding from the tips of the cones. An even finer display than last year. Abies delavayi Abies delavayi The…

…out yet. Odd how the flowering time in Schefflera species varies from summer to autumn. Schefflera delavayi Schefflera delavayi Schefflera delavayi Schefflera delavayi Acer laevigatum; a young plant with reddish…

…delavayi Magnolia delavayi Vitex agnus castus in the sun on a remarkably hot afternoon. Vitex agnus castus Cladrastis kentukea turning yellow early as usual. Cladrastis kentukea Cryptomeria japonica ‘Araucarioides’ was…

…the garden after a couple of years of very few. evidence of rabbits Ross has felled a dead sycamore above Burns Bank. dead sycamore Tom Hudson’s pink Magnolia delavayi. Magnolia…

…to the most promising new shoots. Magnolia sieboldii Wonderful new growth on Schefflera delavayi. Schefflera delavayi 35 year old ash trees below Kennel Close quietly dying. A new threat to…